CLARESHOLM, AB - The RCMP is investigating a serious collision in southern Alberta.It occurred at approximately 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, on Highway 22, about five kilometres north of Highway 520.The initial investigation from the RCMP revealed that a southbound vehicle may have crossed the centre line and ...

Part of the region received around 1.5 feet of snowfall on Tuesday, April 30, 2024.Environment Canada says heavy snow fell over sections of southwestern Alberta from Monday evening to Tuesday morning.The area southwest of Millarville, located in Foothills County south of Calgary, saw a total of 46 cm of snow.The weathe...

M.D. OF RANCHLAND, AB - The RCMP is on-scene of a collision on Highway 22 in southern Alberta.The Claresholm and Nanton RCMP detachments and other emergency crews are responding to the area roughly five kilometres north of Highway 520, in the Municipal District of Ranchland.Police say Highway 22 is impassable going bot...

VAUXHALL, AB - Irrigation districts will benefit from a big funding boost.The Government of Alberta has announced a $19 million investment through Budget 2024 to update irrigation infrastructure across the province. The money will go toward the Irrigation Rehabilitation Program and is an increase of $5.5 million over l...

CLARESHOLM, AB - The RCMP is investigating a serious collision in southern Alberta.It occurred at approximately 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, on Highway 22, about five kilometres north of Highway 520.The initial investigation from the RCMP revealed that a southbound vehicle may have crossed the centre line and ...

Part of the region received around 1.5 feet of snowfall on Tuesday, April 30, 2024.Environment Canada says heavy snow fell over sections of southwestern Alberta from Monday evening to Tuesday morning.The area southwest of Millarville, located in Foothills County south of Calgary, saw a total of 46 cm of snow.The weathe...

M.D. OF RANCHLAND, AB - The RCMP is on-scene of a collision on Highway 22 in southern Alberta.The Claresholm and Nanton RCMP detachments and other emergency crews are responding to the area roughly five kilometres north of Highway 520, in the Municipal District of Ranchland.Police say Highway 22 is impassable going bot...

VAUXHALL, AB - Irrigation districts will benefit from a big funding boost.The Government of Alberta has announced a $19 million investment through Budget 2024 to update irrigation infrastructure across the province. The money will go toward the Irrigation Rehabilitation Program and is an increase of $5.5 million over l...

Testy exchanges between the prime minister and his chief opponent ended with the Opposition leader and one of his MPs being ejected from the House of Commons on Tuesday - and the rest of Conservative caucus walking out of the chamber in protest.The unusually tense events saw Speaker Greg Fergus caution both Prime Minis...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Lethbridge Farmers' Market is returning for 2024.The weekly market will run at the Lethbridge & District Agri-Food Hub & Trade Centre every Saturday beginning on June 8 and running until October 12. 2024 marks the first year the market will be at its new venue.The market is the city's only ...

Wednesday marks the official start date of the long-awaited $34-billion Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion project.Crown corporation Trans Mountain Corp. says as of Wednesday, the expanded pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast will be transporting crude oil. The project involved twinning an existing pipeline that ...

CALGARY, AB - A Calgary judge will determine in June if he will approve a proposed settlement for complainants in a class-action lawsuit that alleged the Calgary Stampede allowed a performance school staffer to sexually abuse young boys. The agreement is related to the case of Philip Heerema. Heerema received a 10-year...

EDMONTON, AB - The Alberta government will consult with the province's sexual assault centres to determine how to spend an additional $10 million over the next three years.An additional $3 million is being allocated in 2024-25 to support 15 sexual assault centres.There will be another $3 million in 2025-26 and $4 milli...

M.D. OF RANCHLAND, AB - The RCMP is on-scene of a collision on Highway 22 in southern Alberta.The Claresholm and Nanton RCMP detachments and other emergency crews are responding to the area roughly five kilometres north of Highway 520, in the Municipal District of Ranchland.Police say Highway 22 is impassable going bot...

VAUXHALL, AB - Irrigation districts will benefit from a big funding boost.The Government of Alberta has announced a $19 million investment through Budget 2024 to update irrigation infrastructure across the province. The money will go toward the Irrigation Rehabilitation Program and is an increase of $5.5 million over l...

A program with a goal to provide financial support for rural projects is now accepting applications.Since the inception of the Farm Credit Canada (FCC) AgriSpirit Fund in 2004, FCC has supported 1,615 capital projects in rural Canada totaling $21 million for registered charities, non-profit organizations and First Nati...

OTTAWA - Mental Health and Addictions Minister Ya'ara Saks says the decision about whether to recriminalize drug use in British Columbia needs to be made urgently, but she's still waiting for more information from the province before making a call. The province is one year into a three-year pilot project to decriminali...

OTTAWA - Conservative MPs want House of Commons Speaker Greg Fergus to resign after ejecting their leader - and not Prime Minister Justin Trudeau - during a heated debate Tuesday. The Conservatives say Fergus did not apply the rules equally during a tense back and forth between Trudeau and Conservative Leader Pierre Po...

Wednesday marks the official start date of the long-awaited $34-billion Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion project.Crown corporation Trans Mountain Corp. says as of Wednesday, the expanded pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast will be transporting crude oil. The project involved twinning an existing pipeline that ...

HALIFAX - An independent committee released today its first report on how governments and the RCMP are responding to the inquiry into the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia that claimed 22 lives. The federal-provincial inquiry, known as the Mass Casualty Commission, submitted a final report last year that included 130 n...

The investigation continues into a collision that killed two grandparents and their infant grandchild during a high-speed police chase on the wrong way of Highway 401 east of Toronto. The Monday night crash - which also left the person in the suspect van dead - raised questions about the police pursuit that had been tr...

Officials at McGill University are awaiting word from Montreal police, following a request to help clear a pro-Palestinian encampment on the school grounds. The call for assistance comes after efforts to persuade the protesters to end what the school has called an illegal action failed. The demonstrators say they have ...

LONDON (AP) - German tennis legend Boris Becker was discharged from bankruptcy court in London after a judge found Wednesday he had done "all that he reasonably could do" to repay creditors tens of millions of pounds. Becker fell far short of repaying his creditors in full, but Chief Insolvency and Companies ...

WESTMORELAND, Kan. (AP) - One person died Tuesday when a tornado ripped through the small city of Westmoreland in northeastern Kansas, destroying houses, RVs and outbuildings, authorities said. Pottawatomie County officials said on Facebook that a tornado struck the city of about 700 people Tuesday evening, destroying ...

NEW YORK (AP) - The pro-Palestinian demonstration that paralyzed Columbia University ended in dramatic fashion late Tuesday, with police carrying riot shields swarming the Ivy League campus, bursting into an administration building protesters took over the previous night and making dozens of arrests. A statement releas...

BEIJING (AP) - The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China said he was allowed back into his lab after he spent days locked outside, sitting in protest. Zhang Yongzhen wrote in an online post early Wednesday that authorities had "tentatively agreed" to allow him and his team to re...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A new congressional map giving Louisiana a second majority-Black House district was rejected Tuesday by a panel of three federal judges, fueling new uncertainty about district boundaries as the state prepares for fall congressional elections. The 2-1 ruling forbids the use of a map drawn up in Januar...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Democratic state Sen. Timothy Kennedy won a special election Tuesday for the New York congressional seat vacated by Democrat Brian Higgins. Kennedy defeated Republican Gary Dickson for the upstate New York seat, helped by a 2-to-1 Democratic registration advantage in the district, which includes Bu...